WRVS Ormskirk Hospital Shop Video Interview with manager Deborah Brown

WRVS Orsmkirk Hospital Shop Interview with manager Deborah Brown

The WRVS (Women's Royal Voluntary Service) is a charity which originated back during the second world war. Today the motto of the WRVS is "Positive about age, positive about life"

Through more than 40,000 volunteers WRVS helps older people all over the country to stay independent at home and active in their community. It is that practical little bit of help that makes all the difference -- whether at home, getting them to where they want to go, bringing people together through social activities or supporting them in hospital or in an emergency.

The WRVS hospital shop in the Ormskirk District General Hospital donated in 2011 £41,000 to the hospital.  This donation was made to fund a new heart scanner. The money was raised from the profits made by the hospital shop.

During the video interview Deborah Brown, the shop manager, gives us an insight into the shops activities and those of the WRVS in West Lancashire.

Interview with the League of Friends & Father Christmas at Ormskirk Hospital on Christmas Day 2011

Interview with League of Friends & Father Christmas Ormskirk Hospital Christmas Day 2011.

The Ormskirk League of Freinds have raised money to buy hospital equipment and volunteered at the Ormskirk Hospital for the last fifty years. Each year on Christmas day, several of the League volunteers accompany Father Christmas around the wards and give out presents to the patients.

Ormskirk hospital developed from Ormskirk Workhouse. Two workhouses were in fact established in Ormskirk in the 1730s, in Aughton Street and Moor Street. The former was sold and the institutions combined in the Moor Street premises around 1838-39. A new workhouse was built in 1853 on what is now the site of Ormskirk Hospital, in Wigan Road.
Known in the 1930s as the County Hospital and Institution, in the 1950s as Ormskirk County Hospital, it is now Ormskirk and District General Hospital.
Administered by the Guardians' Committee until absorbed into the NHS in 1948, the hospital then came under the aegis of the Ormskirk and District Hospital Management Committee, subsequently the Ormskirk Health District of the Lancashire Area Health Authority, and later the West Lancashire Health Authority.

Video Filmed on a Kodak ZX1 Pocket Video Camera

Carol Singers & Father Christmas at Ormskirk Hospital 171211 - YouTube

A video clip of the Friends In Unison Choir singing Christmas carols to visitors to Ormskirk Hospital.

The choir from Christ Church in Aughton, together with Father Christmas, entertained patients, visitors and staff singing Christmas Carols, over three mornings, at Ormskirk District General Hospital in December 2011. Despite the economic hard times, local people still managed to open their hearts and purses by donating a record £256.08 for the Hospital League of Friends. Choir mistress Eunice Woof thanked the generosity of all concerned.

Video Filmed on a Kodak ZX1 Pocket Video Camera